Water Diffusion in Double Cantilever Beam Adhesive Joints

Automatic Optical Crack Tracking for Double Cantilever Beam Specimens

1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 2 Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 3 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 4 Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana...

Wedge and Double Cantilever Beam Tests on a High Temperature Melt Processable Polyimide Adhesive, TPER- BPDA-PA

Energy Release Rate Analysis for Adhesive and Laminate Double Cantilever Beam Spec- imens Emphasizing the Effect of Residual Stresses

The mode I energy release rate, including the effect of residual stresses, was evaluated for both adhesive and laminate double cantilever beam specimens. The energy release rate can be partitioned into a mechanical term and a residual stress term in beam theory. The beamtheory mechanical term is not very accurate, but can be corrected by a slight modification to a previous correction factor. Th...

Neurocontrol of a Cantilever Beam

The civil engineering community is currently moving towards the continuous monitoring of civil structures in order to forecast their unavoidable failure with enough precision. So-called smart technologies seem to be well adapted to this specific task. For a civil structure, such as a bridge or a dam, a monitoring smart system often includes a set of sensors, whose data is passed onto a controll...

Moisture absorption-desorption effects in adhesive joints

This paper presents a study of moisture absorption-desorption effects in single lap adhesive joints. Experiments were carried out to characterise the moisture uptake of the single part epoxide adhesive, FM73. Tensile testing of single lap joints manufactured from aluminium alloy 2024 T3 and O and FM73 adhesive was carried out after the joints were exposed to different conditioning environments....